{"id":66872,"date":"2026-08-06T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66872\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:49:08","slug":"metal-titans-sepultura-unleash-their-ferocious-under-siege-barcelona-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66872\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Titans Sepultura Unleash Their Ferocious \u2018Under Siege\u2019 Barcelona Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sepultura turn a Barcelona stage into controlled chaos in \u2018Under Siege,\u2019 a blistering concert film from the band\u2019s early-1990s peak. The performance captures the Brazilian metal giants charging through material from \u2018Arise\u2019 and \u2018Beneath the Remains\u2019 with almost no room to breathe.<\/p>\n

The upload is titled \u2018Under Siege Live in Barcelona 1992,\u2019 while the individual song listings identify the performances as being recorded in Barcelona in 1991.<\/p>\n

Either way, the footage catches Sepultura during a crucial period.<\/p>\n

\u2018Arise\u2019 had pushed the band\u2019s thrash foundations toward darker atmospheres, heavier grooves and increasingly ambitious arrangements. Those songs sound even more physical onstage.<\/p>\n

Following a short introduction, \u201cArise\u201d opens the set with immediate force. The guitars lock into a punishing rhythm while the drums drive the song forward at full speed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDesperate Cry\u201d stretches that intensity into a longer, more dynamic performance. Its slower passages only make the heavier sections feel more severe when the band crashes back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cDead Embryonic Cells\u201d remains one of the defining songs of this era, combining rapid thrash with the groove-driven attack that would become increasingly important to Sepultura\u2019s sound.<\/p>\n

The set reaches further into \u2018Arise\u2019 with \u201cMass Hypnosis\u201d and \u201cAltered State,\u201d both showing how much detail the band could pack into music delivered with such aggression.<\/p>\n

\u201cInner Self\u201d and \u201cEscape to the Void\u201d bring \u2018Beneath the Remains\u2019 into the performance, connecting Sepultura\u2019s underground breakthrough with the broader international attention surrounding them at the time.<\/p>\n

The playing is fierce and remarkably tight. Every abrupt transition lands cleanly, and the band maintains its momentum without sacrificing the atmosphere inside the songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cTroops of Doom\u201d reaches back to Sepultura\u2019s earlier catalogue before the title track \u201cBeneath the Remains\u201d delivers another burst of tightly wound thrash.<\/p>\n

The concert closes with \u201cOrgasmatron,\u201d Sepultura\u2019s crushing interpretation of the Mot\u00f6rhead song. Its slower, marching rhythm gives the ending a different kind of power while preserving the intensity of everything that came before it.<\/p>\n

\u2018Under Siege\u2019 captures a band already capable of overwhelming a room while still expanding what its music could become.<\/p>\n

Sepultura\u2019s complete Barcelona performance is available to watch now.<\/p>\n

Setlist:<\/p>\n

\u201cIntro\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cArise\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDesperate Cry\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDead Embryonic Cells\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMass Hypnosis\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAltered State\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInner Self\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEscape to the Void\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTroops of Doom\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeneath the Remains\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOrgasmatron\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sepultura turn a Barcelona stage into controlled chaos in \u2018Under Siege,\u2019 a blistering concert film from the band\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,26567,26568,26569],"class_list":["post-66872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-motorhead","tag-rock-para-todos","tag-sepultura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}